Deep Blue is all about underground, forward thinking, house and techno for dance music's true fans. Our Deep Blue events at Monarch have been a big hit in the summer of 2012. Every month we invite one of our favorite DJs/producers from all over the world to perform in the intimate setting of Monarch on their crisp Void sound system. The artists we bring are known to move dance floors and do it well. We don't book producers that are hot and only have one hit. We try to stay away from that and bring artists that specialize in keeping the dance floor moving. In 2012, there have been five sold out Deep Blue shows at Monarch; Carl Craig (PlanetE), Basti (Tiefschwarz), Stacey Pullen (BlackFlag), GUTI Live (Desolat), Damian Lazarus (Crosstown rebels) and last month, tINI (Desolat)
This months special guest, hailing from Berlin is the Rekids records boss, Radio Slave also known as Matt Edwards. Radio Slave is an old friend of the Deep Blue crew, performing at multiple gigs acorss the US with Deep Blue regulars, Rooz and Stacey Pullen. Radio Slave's discography shows his dedication and passion for producing great tunes, not to mention great tunes that get released on Vinyl. From remixes and productions on great lables like Defected, NRK, Poker Flat, Viva, Crosstown Rebels, Om, Ovum, SCi+tec, etc, to remixing great artists like Trentmoller, Xpress2 and Dubfire. Not to mention dropping 5 hour + sets at the Rekids residency at the legendary Panorama Bar in Berlin. With all that said, the man knows how to move dance floors and has beeing doing it for 17+ years. That is why he is here with us for a special event at Monarch.
More info on RadioSlave:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/radioslave
http://www.facebook.com/like.radio.slave
http://www.rekids.com/
Radio Slave Bio:
No matter what sounds you profess to be your music of choice, chances are, that at some point over the last five years, you will have got your rocks off to Matt Edwards.
As Matthew E he fashions club-based, dancefloor slayers. Under that aegis he’s updated the classic Chi-town, jackin’ sound beloved of house aficionados and layered it with fractured funk, belligerent, oddball beats and mechanical soul.
If Matthew E is all about the Saturday Night Fever, then, by contrast, Rekid is the slower, more deliberate, rhythmical funk of the mid-week mayhem. Its well-intentioned muscular intensity making it perfect soulful sustenance.
Quiet Village is something else all together. A collaboration with long-time musical sparring partner Joel Martin (a vinyl freak, like Mr Edwards, who works in esteemed auction house Christie’s pop department), it’s sample-based music which veers from drawn out disco-not-disco delirium to evocative, under-stated soundscapes.
Sea Devils - you keeping up at the back? – is undeniable electronic pop brilliance. Working with Tom from Cagedbaby, it’s the least niche of Matt’s projects and thanks to Sea Devils alluring pop dance grooves they’ll no doubt be shagging the upper reaches of the hit parade sometime soon.
Last, but by no means least etc, etc, etc, is Radio Slave. Perhaps Matt’s most instantly recognisable nom de guerre, thanks in part to his inspirational melding of Kylie’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head to New Order’s Blue Monday, this is Matt’s DJ moniker and the guise under which he completes his incendiary remixes and re-edits.
However, before such sonic schizophrenia gets you calling for the men in white coats, just feel the quality and consider Matt’s legacy. Fired by the first wave of acid house, Matt gained his musical spurs by partying to dance music that was just that: music you danced to, irrespective of tribal factions.
This was the raison d’être he acknowledged when he took to the decks, first at London’s legendary Milk Bar in 1992, then onto the, then, recently opened Ministry Of Sound and then to parties across the country, most notably in Wales – where he was a regular at free parties – and in Brighton, his home since 1998.
His love of re-edits, dance music’s oft-forgotten backbone, led Matt into the studio himself. His own re-edits and remixes, such as the aforementioned epoch-defining re-imagining for Ms Minogue, soon gave way to his own productions and since the floodgates opened there’s been no stopping the man known as, erm, Matthew E, Quiet Village, Sea Devils, Rekid and Radio Slave.
He’s released records for Skint, Soul Jazz, Classic, Whatever We Want, and he’s worked with fellow travellers, Belgium’s The Glimmers. If Matt comes up with another two projects he’ll have enough alter egos for every day of the week.
Psychologists would probably have a field day with him; mercifully, we don’t have to worry about any crisis of identity, we just get to keep on dancing.
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